Title:

Cyberschools: An Education Renaissance

Author/s:

G. Jones

Year:

1997

Excerpt:

Clearly, all mediums of communications have their advantages and disadvantages. But the research really does show there is no significant difference in the student’s ability to learn using technology-based education tools. And not just for computer-aided teaching. Long ago research into whether television was an inferior learning tool proved there is no real difference between learning from TV and learning from the traditional classroom … it was reported time and again in research on how we learn at all levels that electronic instruction–either via teleconference or computer conference– can be as effective as traditional classroom-based lectures and face-to-face discussion. On-line students have test scores equal to those in conventional classrooms …

About the study:

Finding No Significant Difference
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